Choose wisely! (A RNG Draft)

[ddrap14]

Only waiting on @Neptune @Disharies and @Aravind. - I think

 

[ddrap14]

Okay, this is getting ridiculous.

@Disharies you have 12 hours to pick or you're getting removed from the draft, at this point

 

[Till Valhalla]

Okay, this is getting ridiculous.

@Disharies you have 12 hours to pick or you're getting removed from the draft, at this point

I think he hasn't logged in for a few days

 

[ddrap14]

I think he hasn't logged in for a few days

 

[Till Valhalla]

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Oops my bad sorry.

 

[ddrap14]

Scroll to bottom for Round 3 pool!

Firstly, Disharies has been removed from the draft for consistently not following the rules and expectations of a draftee. (More specifically: firstly picking incorrectly, then invalidly, then invisibly).
Alright, here's the list of people's picks:

@ddrap14 - Alvin Kallicharran
@Aislabie - Colin Croft
@Aravind. - Dennis Amiss
@pillowprocter - Dushan Hemantha
@Paranoid Kendroid - Dennis Amiss
@icyman - Bob Willis
@Till Valhalla - Willie Hogg
@Perfect Square - David Lloyd
@ahmedleo414 - Dennis Amiss
@Supreme General - Chaminda Bandara
@Viper. - Dennis Amiss
@Neptune - Colin Croft
@mohsin7827 - Alvin Kallicharran

Alright, so one less RNG participant, although if "Croft" was posted publicly it'd be the same as last round mostly. Procter gets Hemantha, Icyman gets Bob Willis, TV gets Hogg, Perfect Square gets Bumble, Supreme gets Bandara, the rest of us get to go into the RNG, and nobody gets Clive Lloyd yet. Let's see how this shakes out...

@ddrap14 - Ruchira Koshitha

An alright spinner. Not Clive Lloyd.

@Aislabie - :wl: Chanaka Komasaru

Into his 25th year of first-class cricket, I'd take Komasaru. 700 FC wickets don't grow on trees.

@Aravind. - Clive Lloyd

I tempted fate didn't I

@Paranoid Kendroid - Leo Francisco

Wait, not him. The Sri Lankan who at least is a wicketkeeper.

@ahmedleo414 - John Whitehouse

Whitehouse was DEFINITELY more suited to the first class game, but a handy selection here over some of the Sri Lankan options. Good catcher and occasional spinner too

@Viper. - David Smith

Sorry, Viper, but this is the thoroughly ordinary batsman, not the two-time England international all-rounder.

@Neptune - Steve Perryman

Speaking of confusing identity, this is not the Tottenham Hotspur footballer of the same era - rather, a horse-for-course County "quick".

@mohsin7827 - Harry Pilling

NGL, my writeup would be the same here as it would be about Whitehouse except without the spin.

Round 3 Matches
You can pick from either...

Nottinghamshire vs Worcestershire, 1991


or
Nottinghamshire vs Lancashire, 1973


Clive and David Lloyd and Harry Pilling are all taken.

 

[icyman]

Genuinely surprised no.one picked Clive Lloyd in the draft. I didn't cause I knew he might be hot property. Well, anyway, good for @Aravind.

 

[ddrap14]

Y'all are speedy. It might genuinely only be Viper and Kendroid left. (Not tagging them because this isn't a hurryup - it's only been two hours!

 

[Viper.]

This is genuinely a mind boggler of a draft. You just cannot pick the best player or best 3 players cause everyone will pick them. So you pick someone else. But other players will think the same way in their head and pick the lowkey guys. So does that mean you can pick the best players? What if other players think of this and then pick the best player. It’s a paradox

It all comes down to strategy thus… you can still pick the best guy n just hope the rng gets a good pick, and if everyone in the game except one guy is mid, might asw try your chance at the best guy n otherwise let rng decide . But if a lot of big names r there, there’s the strategy and high number of luck of picking a guy that no one else would, maybe the 5th or 6th biggest name, but again what if others think the same way.. it’s all so crazy it’s amazing

 

[pillowprocter]

the way i do it is i check which names i know and pick one off vibes. saves you a lot of stress, and your chances of success dont take a hit. in the later stages however it will be a lot easier to predict who other people will go for, based on the gaps they have in their team

 

[Viper.]

in short it’s just a contest of trying to match the unpopular opinion. So Its a paradox as if everyone matches an unpopular opinion it’s now popular. Same logic I guess

 

[karolkarol]

Not involved in this but I love that you picked 2 matches nearly 20 years apart and Derek Randall is playing in both

 

[ddrap14]

Scroll to bottom for Round 4 pool!

Alright, here's the list of people's picks:

@ddrap14 - Garry Sobers
@Aislabie - Franklyn Stephenson
@Aravind. - Farokh Engineer
@pillowprocter - Garry Sobers
@Paranoid Kendroid - Phil Newport
@icyman - Tom Moody
@Till Valhalla - Tom Moody
@Perfect Square - Richard Illingworth
@ahmedleo414 - Garry Sobers
@Supreme General - Ian Botham
@Viper. - Ian Botham
@Neptune - Tom Moody
@mohsin7827 - Garry Sobers

It's a funny draft where Tom Moody gets more calls than Ian Botham. So, Aislabie gets burgles Franklyn Stephenson, Aravind gets Engineer, KEndroid gets Newport, Perfect Square gets Illingworth, and everyone else goes to the lottery.

@ddrap14 - Mike "Pasty" Harris

Wait, an actually decent RNG player for me? Pasty was not as good at LO as he was at FC, but pretty decent at both.

@pillowprocter - David Hughes

Hughes was a very solid bowler and a good lower order batsman. Very handy if not Sobers.

@icyman - Bruce French

French wasn't good with the bat, but he was a brilliant wicket keeper who's an asset that way.

@Till Valhalla - Chris Tolley

Kind of like David Hughes but worse.

@ahmedleo414 - Basher Hassan

Hassan would be an elite international for Kenya. As it was, they weren't ever available for there, and he's instead an okay batsman and occasional wicketkeeper.

@Supreme General - Bill Taylor

Lots of decent seamers today; Taylor is another of those.

@Viper. - Graeme Hick

That actually kinda worked out in the end ngl

@Neptune - Paul Pollard

Pollard is a batsman who was slightly better in LO games, actually, so that's a little positive.

@mohsin7827 - uh, Garry Sobers



Round 4 Matches
You can pick from either...

Nottinghamshire vs Northamptonshire, 2005 (do Nottinghamshire ever go away?)


or
Western Province vs Eastern Province, 1990/91